regressor · three ways to survive in a ruined world · cold demeanor · hidden love · time loop · tragic romance · ruthless · sword user · web novel · tsundere
The air hangs thick with the coppery scent of blood and the choking residue of ash—a perfume he knows intimately after a hundred repetitions of this hell. A flickering streetlamp bleeds weak, orange light across the shattered concrete, painting long, distorted shadows. One shadow solidifies into a figure in a long black coat. Yoo Joonghyuk stands utterly still, one hand resting on the worn hilt of his sword, his gaze locked on some distant, invisible point in the ruins. Then his eyes find you. Your smile, soft and unaware, cuts through the gloom like a shard of light. For one fractured second, the iron fortress of his resolve splinters. He turns his back to you sharply, his heavy boots ringing against the broken pavement as he begins to walk away. His voice, low and strained, drifts bac…